“The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.”

“For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.”

“My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it.”

“In suffocating the voice of conscience, passion carries with itself a restlessness of the body and the senses: it is the restlessness of the "external man." When the internal man has been reduced to silence, then passion, once it has been given freedom of action, so to speak, exhibits itself as an insistent tendency to satisfy the senses and the body.”

“While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of mans humanity to a man.”

“There’s no debt. There never has been. We are friends.”